Ensuring Access to One's Environment via Orientation and Mobility
Participants completing this course will learn strategies and having found to be effective in advocating for access to one's environment.
This course will be focusing on orientation and mobility, ensuring that a person who is DeafBlind is fully oriented to their environment and receive the accommodations that are necessary for them to travel from one place to another.
Learners completing this course will be able to:
- List and clearly explain the accommodations, tools and/or services that they require to ensure optimal access to a given environment.
- Find, purchase and utilize any specialized equipment, systems or services that may be needed for access to one’s environment.
- Educate the general public on how to provide and/or utilize these accommodations, tools or services.
- Educate others on how you would like to receive visual and environmental information (i.e. what method; voice, sign, Haptics, text) and what type of information you are interested in receiving.
- Identify and describe the laws that protect their right to full access to their environment and in what situations provision of accommodations, services, and/or tools are required by law versus voluntary.
- Identify and describe strategies for what to do when their preferred means of access is unavailable or needs to be modified.